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Infant bacchanal

Maker

(artist)
1686-1738

Title

Infant bacchanal

Date of Production

1701

Medium

black chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 39.3 cm
Width: 30.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4559

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords




Provenance

anonymous sale (listed under 'Various Properties'), Sotheby's (London), 7 November 1951, lot 8 (with D.1952.RW.4560); purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952) (£6, for both); Witt Bequest 1952

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: lower centre edge: shield with bend surmounted by a fleur-de-lis; Countermark: upper centre edge: “LLAP [?]” (not found in Churchill or Heawood).

Inscription: Recto: upper right corner, brown ink, cut off so that only fragments of fragments of several lines of letters visible; left upper edge, brown ink, cut off: “[...]get”; left centre edge, brown ink, cut off: “gen”; left lower edge, brown ink, cut off: “[...]eden”, “biteu” and “erbjen”; lower left, brown ink, signed and dated by the artist: “Cornelius Loos. / fecit Ao: 1701. //”. Verso: lower left, graphite, Witt number: “4559”.

Collector's mark: Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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